as in alienated
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to cause to change from friendly or loving to unfriendly or uncaring
she estranged several of her coworkers when she let her promotion go to her head
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Recent Examples of estranged
Martha Ross, Mercury News, 12 June 2025
Anjelica Huston as Eleanor Zissou in The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
With a blue streak in her hair and a piercing glare for her estranged husband, Huston plays Eleanor Zissou with utmost coolness.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 12 June 2025
If Musk ultimately becomes estranged from both his initial liberal supporters and the newer conservative demographic, Tesla could face significant demand challenges in the U.S.
—Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025
The Context While Simon Patterson, the cook's estranged husband, had declined her lunch invitation, his parents, Don and Gail Patterson, attended the meal.
—Chloe Mayer, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 June 2025
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Over the past year, it’s been reported that Brad Pitt has become estranged from all six of his children following his bitter, nine-years-long divorce battle with their mother, Angelina Jolie.
—Martha Ross, Mercury News, 12 June 2025
Anjelica Huston as Eleanor Zissou in The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
With a blue streak in her hair and a piercing glare for her estranged husband, Huston plays Eleanor Zissou with utmost coolness.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 12 June 2025
If Musk ultimately becomes estranged from both his initial liberal supporters and the newer conservative demographic, Tesla could face significant demand challenges in the U.S.
—Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025
The Context While Simon Patterson, the cook's estranged husband, had declined her lunch invitation, his parents, Don and Gail Patterson, attended the meal.
—Chloe Mayer, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for estranged
Adjective
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Years of having to be the practical one so Buddy could be the fun one have left her feeling invisible, alienated from her own wants and needs.—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
13 June 2025
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These communities can draw in young men who feel alienated or marginalized, providing them with a sense of identity and validation for grievances centered around romantic rejection, economic difficulty, and social isolation.—
Suzanne Blake,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 June 2025
Adjective
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The zoo staff set up traps in locations where the otters were seen more than once, but like any good story, antagonistic foil characters in the form of raccoons quite literally foiled their plans by interfering with the contraptions.—
Margherita Bassi,
Popular Science,
12 June 2025
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Porter needs to take a more antagonistic stance against Arnold’s Folly, including demanding Newsom and the Legislature remove that funding.—
John Seiler,
Oc Register,
31 May 2025
Verb
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Madrid were angered by a decision in that game to award Espanyol defender Carlos Romero a yellow card for a 60th-minute challenge on Kylian Mbappe, which was not upgraded to a red card by VAR.—
Guillermo Rai,
New York Times,
13 Apr. 2025
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That meeting angered Israeli officials, and reportedly Dermer in particular.—
Alex Marquardt,
CNN Money,
10 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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That’s coupled with a more hostile political environment for diversity-forward businesses.—
Phoebe Liu,
Forbes.com,
8 June 2025
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The crowd was right on top of you there, the students rimmed the court, the very definition of a hostile environment.—
Jim Calhoun with Dom Amore,
Hartford Courant,
8 June 2025
Verb
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The sketch opened with Mikey Day as Jesus, recreating the scene from the Bible in which Christ visits the temple and gets enraged at seeing money changers transacting business within its walls.—
Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
13 Apr. 2025
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While there, Jesus visited the temple and enraged upon seeing money changers transacting business within its sacred walls, expelled them all.—
McKinley Franklin,
HollywoodReporter,
12 Apr. 2025
Verb
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The policy outraged customers as going-out-of-business sales continue and some argued there was little notice to redeem their store value.—
Anthony Robledo,
USA TODAY,
21 Mar. 2025
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The move caught White House officials off guard and outraged some supporters of the president, who had been promised that more details would be made public.—
Katherine Faulders,
ABC News,
20 Mar. 2025
Verb
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In November, two fiber-optic Baltic Sea cables were severed.—
Rebecca Rosman,
NPR,
31 Dec. 2024
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Iran’s land bridge to Hezbollah has been severed by the fall of Syria’s Assad regime.—
Dina Kraft,
The Christian Science Monitor,
30 Dec. 2024
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“Estranged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/estranged. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.
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